Throughout the United States and Canadia, Thanksgiving is celebrated/endured/slept-through every year on the last Thursday of November. More importantly, a lot of people have the following Friday off of work, and every year millions of retailers celebrate Black Friday with fabulous bargains, a testing of the waters before the pre-Christmas shopping binges.
This has, of course, led to the anti-consumerist backlash of Buy Nothing Day.
Most years, out of post-feast indolence I end up celebrating Buy Nothing Day by default. This year, I shall be celebrating Thanksgiving in scenic Malta, Montana (seat of Phillips County!), and I think I may have better odds of observing BND this year.